MAW: Burma CampaignUK/ Whilst much of the criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi is justified, if we want to save Rohingya lives, at this time we need to focus pressure on Min Aung Hlaing and his military.

Monday, September 18, 2017

Burma CampaignUK/ Whilst much of the criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi is justified, if we want to save Rohingya lives, at this time we need to focus pressure on Min Aung Hlaing and his military.

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5:38 PM (2 hours ago)

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Dear Hla

The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya shows no sign of letting up.
More than 400,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, around half of them children.
The government of Burma said this weekend that they were “involved in the violent attacks” and have fled arrest.

That’s more than half the entire Rohingya population in Burma driven out in less than a month.

Our sources tell us that attacks are spreading to more areas where Rohingya live.
Tens of thousands more Rohingya are trapped in Burma, having fled their homes but with no way to get to Bangladesh.
Thousands have been killed, many more are facing starvation.

The response of the British government has been hopeless.
They secured two meetings at the UN Security Council but with no practical outcome. They haven’t even stopped the military training programmes they give to an army now engaged in ethnic cleansing.

Burma Campaign UK has been working round the clock on this crisis, getting information to media and working with them behind the scenes so they can report what is going on, helping Rohingya organisations, working with MPs, 157 of whom wrote to the British government calling for an end to military training, and rushing from TV studio to TV studio to talk about the crisis and what the international community must do about it.
We are doing everything we can to raise awareness and pressure governments to act. We are only a small organisation.
It’s your support which has enabled us to do this.

A lot of supporters have been asking us about Aung San Suu Kyi’s response to this crisis. Frankly,
it is shocking. She has so much respect from people in Burma, she was the one person who could have challenged the endemic prejudice against the Rohingya.
Tomorrow (Tuesday 19^th September) she is making a speech on Burmese
TV. We can only hope that she will change her approach.

Whilst much of the criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi is justified, if we want to save Rohingya lives, at this time we need to focus pressure on Min Aung Hlaing and his military.
We explain why in this article by our Director, Mark Farmaner.

If you haven’t taken action to ask the British government to stop training the Burmese Army, you can do so here.

You can also ask the British government to back a global UN arms embargo against the military.

If you have taken these actions, please forward them to friends and share on social media.

You can also donate to support our work here.

We’ll be in touch soon with more news and an update on the campaign.

Many thanks for your support.
Anna Roberts
Executive Director